Commonwealth v. Alicea’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 31 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “error was likely to have * influenced the jury's conclusion.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Rhodes · Commonwealth v. Copeland

2. “determination of a juror's impartiality is essentially one of credibility, and therefore largely one of demeanor, [a reviewing] court give[s] a trial judge's determination of impartiality great deference”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Colon · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 - Commonwealth v. Delarosa

3. “[W]e consider a defendant's claim even if the action by trial counsel does not constitute conduct 'falling measurably below that ... of an ordinary fallible lawyer.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Barnett · Commonwealth v. Salazar